In the series Cervantes y la Música, which begins with a CD entitled Don Quijote al piano, we introduce a new recording named Canciones para don QuijoteSoriano Fuertes, conventionally considered the first Spanish historian of music, reflected this fact some time later, in 1856, in his Historia de la música española:
There are people who say that Cervantes played vihuela and had a perfect background in music; even though this cannot be stated with complete certainty, we must believe that he was a keen lover of this art, as can be proved by the continued praise of music that he mentions in his works.